The BlogHer conference is today. Wish I were there.
Debi Jones and gang are doing what’s promising to be an amazing segment on moblogging. I know also that Ms. Jen is going to be there, too. Mobile blogging will never be the same again.
Link: moblogher.
Moblogging 2.0 is mobile centric and providing multi-directional posting and seeks to highlight the consumption of blogs on mobile devices rather merely capturing while mobile for web-based consumption.
Something to think about.
Link: When evil meets good – The Boston Globe – Boston.com – Mass. – News.
Good and evil collided this week on a blazing hot morning on the side of a well-traveled road in the outskirts of the bucolic town of Duxbury. And this wasn’t a collision in the merely metaphorical sense.
Link: Om Malik’s Broadband Blog – For mobile carriers, moblogs mean cash money.
Business 2.0: While users seem to love the ability to post pix on the fly, the real beneficiaries will be carriers, who’ve been looking for ways to plump up their flat revenues-per-customer. Here’s why. Everyone expected camera phones to unleash a flood of photo sharing and, with it, growing demand for bandwidth. But that didn’t happen because sharing pictures with your cell phone is a real pain in the neck: Uploading them is awkward and often doesn’t work. But moblogging relies on technology that makes it a snap: Sign on with a moblog service like Flickr and start e-mailing photos from your phone to that account.
Thanks, Om, for stating this. Maybe now they will listen.
But, here’s an exercise: Go to the operators and talk about posting pics directly (over IP) from the phone. I bet you can’t find one who will not, at first, complain about MMS cannibalization. Fortunately, most of them come around (some sooner, some later) and are willing, reluctantly, to give it a try. Then their next comment is how to get money off each posting, not being satisfied with ‘just’ traffic. Then they try to figure out how to lock in their customers with their own (home-grown and weak) blog service.
Sheesh.
I tell them always:
More, please
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Jippo and bowl
Ellen Svinhufund Cake from the Stella Bakery, Helsinki. Ellen was a former Finnish president’s wife.
More on über-geek-model, Anina.
Way to go, Anina!
Link: Blog your way to the top – mobile behaviour from a geeky supermodel.
She had a vision of her own corporation, clearly not a money driven one, but one that brings people together, working together as a team, connecting people. No pun intended. In Anina’s words ‘I’d love to come to a position economically where I can make my friends work and say "lets do this and that and here’s a budget for it". I’d like to be a super model, encouraging young women to loose their techno-phobia and perhaps then they would start to chose computer sciences as a study and move more into the mobile industry [where] there will be many job opportunities.’
i’m already a bit besotted with Apple. The marketing pitch for working at Apple is not just theirs, but it’s my guiding principle.
Dang, I could never be a simple employee. I’ve never done much the way it’s ‘supposed’ to be done. 😉
Link: Apple – Jobs.
There’s the typical job.
Punch in,
push paper,
punch out,
repeat.Then there’s a career at Apple.
Where you’re encouraged to defy routine.
To explore the far reaches of the possible.
To travel uncharted paths.
And to be a part of something far bigger than yourself.Because around here,
changing the world just comes with the job description.
Another view of Web 2.0, comparing it to web 1.0.
Let’s party like it’s 1999.
Link: Om Malik’s Broadband Blog – 1995 vs 2005, are we thinking different?.
1995 vs 2005, are we thinking different?
Via Rodrigo.
Link: [eriksmartt.com/blog] – Blog Archive – semacode 1.5 released.
There’s a new version of semacode available, which includes the full source code for the Symbian SDK. Now I guess we need Python bindings 😉
I wonder if semacode could be used to facilitate Bluetooth pairing. One solution would be to have a semacode sticker on the phone and the app would do the pairing without searching. Alternately, is the camera and semacode good enough to read a semacode on the phone’s screen?
If the semacode app and camera could read a semacode off the screen, then I could think of a few cool apps that could use such kind of help. Sure we have Bluetooth, but sometimes, you just want to touch and get it over with. This way we wouldn’t have to wait for RFID, which needs hardware. Semacode could do this all in SW.
Just a thought.
